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Written By Jennifer Joslyn

🔥 What’s up with all the factory fires in 2022?

There were 3,609 factory fire alerts in 2022, the most ever recorded in a single year and up 85% year-on-year. Resilinc reports that this was by and large the largest supply chain disruption globally and labor disruptions came in sixth place after mergers, leadership transitions, and factory disruptions. Notably, the strike at the United Kingdom’s port of Felixstowe and the Foxconn strikes in Zhengzhou, China severely disrupted iPhone sales over the holiday season.

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